Benefits: Jobseeker's Allowance

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what amount of the income-based jobseeker's allowance of £64.30 per week for single adults aged 25 or over is included for utility bills.

Lord McKenzie of Luton: Income-based jobseeker's allowance is not made up of separate amounts for specific items of expenditure such as utility bills. The Government firmly believe that beneficiaries should be free to spend their benefit as they see fit, in the light of their individual needs and preferences.

Education Maintenance Allowance

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch: To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of 16 to 18 year-olds in full time education are in receipt of educational maintenance allowances; and how this compares with the previous two years.

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: The percentage of 16 to 18 year-olds participating in full-time education in school or college and in receipt of education maintenance allowances for the previous two years is provided in the table below. These data relate to England only. We are unable to provide data for the current academic year as we do not have the final number of recipients of education maintenance allowances or the final estimates for full-time participation at this stage of the year.
	
		
			  2007-08 2008-09 
			 Percentage of 16 to 18 year-olds in full-time further education in receipt of EMA (all payment bands) 46.6% 46.8% 
			 Percentage of 16 to 18 year-olds in full-time further education in receipt of EMA (£30 payment band) 38.1% 38.6% 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. 2009-10 data are not available until final EMA recipient numbers and full-time participation estimates are known.
	2. Provisional official estimates of 16-18 full-time further education will be published in June 2010 as part of the Statistical First Release Participation in Education, Training and Employment by 16-18 year olds in England.
	3. Full-time further education does not include learners on the Entry to Employment (E2E) programme, which will become part of Foundation Learning at the start of 2010-11.
	4. There are three payment bands for EMA, of £10 £20 or £30 a week, subject to household income.

Museums and Galleries

Lord Smith of Finsbury: To ask Her Majesty's Government in the latest year for which figures are available, how many people visited those national museums and galleries which charged for admission in 2001 and are now free.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The most recent figures available for the number of visits to the national museums and galleries that charged in 2001, and are now free, are listed in the table.
	
		
			 Museum 2008-09 
			 Imperial War Museum London 865,601 
			 Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester 743,493 
			 National Maritime Museum 2,068,244 
			 National Museums Liverpool 2,689,889 
			 National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI), National Railway Museum, York 782,430 
			 NMSI, Science Museum, London 2,647,487 
			 Natural History Museum, South Kensington 3,701,347 
			 Natural History Museum, Tring 111,913 
			 Royal Armouries, Leeds 264,973 
			 Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson 73,473 
			 Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington 2,121,102

National Lottery: Big Lottery Fund

Lord Fearn: To ask Her Majesty's Government which projects in Merseyside received Big Lottery funding in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, and (c) 2009.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Big Lottery Fund has advised that it has supported projects in Merseyside for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 to the sum of £35,900,003.
	A list of all projects located in Merseyside that have received funding in the requested years, and which is based on the location of the organisation delivering the project, will be placed in the Libraries of both houses. Within the information supplied in the table, there may be additional projects delivered inside the constituency but where the organisation is located outside.
	The table also includes the name of the applicant, the amount awarded and the Big Lottery Fund programme.

National Lottery: Big Lottery Fund

Lord Fearn: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many projects in Southport in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, and (c) 2009 received Big Lottery funding; of those, how many were (a) health projects, (b) education projects, (c) environmental projects, and (d) charitable projects.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Big Lottery Fund has advised that it has funded a total of 39 projects in the Southport constituency between the 2007 and 2009 calendar years. The total value of these awards is £968,993.
	It is not always possible to categorise projects into the themes you have requested, as many large projects tend to be cross-cutting. For example the Growing Business project was awarded funding in 2007 to provide work experience centred on horticulture and environmental work for people with learning disabilities.
	The Big Lottery Fund has committed to give at least 80 per cent of awards to organisations in the voluntary and community sector. Projects classified as charitable deliver a wide range of projects that can offer health, education or environmental benefits.
	The table provides a list of the 39 projects based on the location of the organisation delivering the project. There may be additional projects delivered inside the constituency but where the organisation is located outside.
	
		
			 2007 
			 Awards for All Programme 
			 Applicant Name-Project Name Total 
			 Inspirations North West-RDI Research Project £10,000 
			 Presfield School-Summer School (One Week) £2,085 
			 Sacred Heart Bowling Club-Toilet £7,860 
			 Sefton Pensioners Advocacy Centre-The Voluntary Advocacy Project £8,500 
			 Southport YMCA-YMCA Out and About £5,799 
			 The Friends of Mere Sands Wood Local Group of the Lancashire Wildlife Trust: 
			 Training in Kybolo Tractor driving, use, maintenance, trailer, loading £1,095 
			 Volunteer Training £4,595 
			 The Macular Disease Society-Southport Group-Macular Disease Society Southport Group £8,438 
			 Wirral Wheelchair Tennis Development Group-Wirral Wheelchair Tennis Development Group £5,004 
			 Awards for All Total £53,376 
			 Breathing Places Programme 
			 Ainsdale St John's C E Primary School-Secret Spaces £9,993 
			 Christ the King Catholic High School-Wildlife Garden £2,932 
			 Breathing Places Total £12,925 
			 Reaching Communities Programme 
			 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council-The Growing Business £401,151 
			 Reaching Communities Total £401,151 
			 2007 Total £467,452 
		
	
	
		
			 2008 
			 Awards for All Programme 
			 Applicant Name-Project Name Total 
			 5th Sefton East Scout Group Development and Provision of Outdoor Challenges £7,399 
			 Beacon Enterprise Community Interest Company-Be Constructive Holiday Workshops £9,149 
			 Brighter Living Partnership-Kew Community Health Research Project £9,700 
			 Christ the King Catholic High School-The Retreat £10,000 
			 Presfield School-Garden Project £2,113 
			 Red Rose Wood Turning Club-Communications Improvement £6,744 
			 Sefton Advocacy-Friendz Group-A Project Managed by Sefton Advocacy £9,900 
			 Southport (Birkdale) U3A-P.A.V.E £2,014 
			 The Ainsdale Civic Society-Ainsdale Edwardian Family Fun Day £4,998 
			 The Friends of Mere Sands Wood Local Group of the Lancashire Wildlife Trust-Installation of Car and People Counter 
			 The Southport Aerobic Gymnastic Club-Aerobic Gymnastics Development £10,000 
			 The Southport Ladies Barbershop Harmony Club-Lord Street Parade £4,890 
			 Awards for All Total £81,140 
			 Reaching Communities Programme 
			 Alzheimer's Society-Southport, Formby and West Lancashire Dementia Outreach Project £347,504 
			 Reaching Communities Total £347,504 
			 2008 Total £428,644 
		
	
	
		
			 2009 
			 Awards for All Programme 
			 Applicant Name-Project Name Total 
			 Bolton Literacy Trust-BLT on Tour! £9,386 
			 Community Art Group-Community Art Project £6,262 
			 Our Lady of Lourdes Home School Association-Come Outside (Community Learning) £10,000 
			 South West Counties Allotment Association Community Interest Company-Allotment administration support £10,000 
			 Working Together Group-Planned Activities £5,357 
			 Awards for All Total £41,005 
			 Awards for All England 09 Programme 
			 Ainsdale United Reformed Church-Ainsdale Community Garden £4,800 
			 Greenbank High School-Grow It @ Greenbank £10,000 
			 Awards for All England 09 Total £14,800 
			 Heroes Return Programme 
			 Heroes Return Awards to individuals-Heroes Return awards to 7 individuals £17,092 
			 Heroes Return Total £17,092 
			 2009 Total £72,897 
			 Grand Total £968,993

Northern Ireland Office: Bonuses

Lord Laird: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was paid in senior civil service performance payments to officials in the Northern Ireland Office in each of the past five years; how the level of payment was calculated; and by whom.

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: The following table shows how much was paid in senior Civil Service performance payments to officials in the Northern Ireland Office in each of the past five years.
	
		
			 SCS Performance Payments 
			 Year Amount (£) 
			 2008-09 287,200 
			 2007-08 317,200 
			 2006-07 298,650 
			 2005-06 247,542 
			 2004-05 176,800 
		
	
	Performance payments for senior civil servants are awarded in accordance with Cabinet Office guidance.

Schools: Transport

Baroness Scott of Needham Market: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the budget for home to school Transport Pathfinder projects has been spent; and, if not, how much remains unspent.

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin: The school transport pathfinder pilots project was cancelled and all funding has been reallocated.

Travel: Fraudulent Documents

Baroness Warsi: To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of fraudulent passports in circulation in the United Kingdom.

Lord West of Spithead: It is not known how many fraudulently obtained passports there are in circulation. Passport fraud by its very nature is difficult to establish and measure. A UK passport has a validity of 10 years, and the level of fraud is unlikely to have remained the same over the 10 years. It would therefore be speculative and misleading to make an estimate on this basis.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty's Government what the intentions of the Victoria and Albert Museum are for the long-term future of their antique musical instrument collection; and, if they do not plan to exhibit the collection, whether they will offer it to another museum.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) closed its musical instruments gallery on 22 February, as part of the museum's ongoing refurbishment plans. The V&A will instead display some of its musical instruments in context of its other collections within the museum. Objects from the collection will be displayed in the British galleries, the medieval and renaissance galleries, the furniture gallery (due to open in 2012) and the Europe 1600-1800 galleries (due to open in 2014).
	The museum has also agreed to the long-term loan of key objects from the V&A's collection of musical instruments to the Horniman Museum in London, which has a nationally designated collection of musical instruments. The V&A is also in discussions with several other institutions with significant musical collections, and expects to be making further loans.
	Any objects not on display will be accessible by appointment as part of the museum's study collections at Blythe House in Kensington Olympia.
	The V&A operates at arm's length from the Government. Decisions on curatorial and operational matters such as the future of the musical instruments gallery are therefore entirely a matter for the museum's trustees and executive.